Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-09
VIRGINIA LEWs.

VIRGINIA Jews.
Captain ". W. Wallf :, city editor of the
Richmond Wig, has accepted position on
the editorial staff OF Vle Times, OF that city.
Two members of f'ne chain gang at Char
lottesville made sd attack on their guard
yesterday, took his pistol from him and es-
capped
Nsw cotton is coming into Norfolk at the
rate of nearly hree hundred bales day,
the season ope ming three weeks earlier than
last year.
The republicans OF Greenville and Sussex
counties held a convention at Emporia yes
terdsy and nominated B. F. Jarratt Cor the
House of Delegates. Jarratt is Mahone's
nominee.
The Richmond Chamber Of Commerce
last night agreed to appropriate $3.50 to the
fund for laying the Lee monument corner
stone. Several ciliZsps have contributed
literally to the same object.
Its said thet Mahone's motive for suing
Riddeberger for money claimed to have
been loaned the latter was 20 break down
his irfuence in the Valley and show how
ungrateful he had been to his former col
league.
A good looking and neatly alfred female
Fredericksburg last right ia commissions. 1t
is supposed she attempted suicide while on
the train. She took the cars at Richmond,
but refuses to disclose her name.
The telegraph and telephone line ICON
bined) is now completed between Freder.
icksburg and Colonial Beach On the Poto.
mac So far the company has been unsble
to arrange with either the Western Union
Gu .iar Gap for
lines.
R. ]. Walker, the late republican candi-
date for Commonwesth's Attorney OF Shen-
sndosh, who was defeated through the in
! Guence Of Senator Riddleberger, has an
nounced himself candidate for State Sena.
tor in the district composed of Shenandoah
and Page counties.
Civil-Service Commissioner Webster was
| in Richmond on Wednesday arranging for
the appointment of Civil Service Commits.
sion for the Richmond postofce. He re
turned 10 Washington that night. AS soon
as he reports the postoffice there will be put
under Ci7ii-Service rule.
Gen. John Holmes Smith, who was select
ed az the democratic nominee for the Sen
ate from the Lynchburg district, has de.
clined 10 allow the use of his name, on the
ground that his business requires all Of his
time The nominating convention meets at
Campbell Court House to morrow.
A gentleman who shot with life the
other day in tie Shenandoah river, near
Woodstock, what he thought was an otter,
was surprised to find he had killed fish
which weighed twenty pounds and meas
ured three feet tep inches in length. It waa
salmon, the FIRST found in those waters.
Yesterday morning the northern bouad
passenger train on the Norfolk and West
ern road ran into the team OF David Swany,
which was being driven by Charles Maddox.
at q crossing about four miles south of
Wythevile, killing both horses and demol
ishiog the wagon. Maddox, though thrown
some distance, escaped unhurt. The train
was behind time and was running at high
rate of speed.
In the County Court Of King George last
week, in the case Of The Commonwealth VS..
W. W. Hudson for attempt to kill Mrs. F.
A. Hudson, the verdict OF the jury was
guilty of an assault and battery, and fxing
The term Of imprisonment at nine months in
the county Jail andto pay fine of S75. 10
The two cases of the Commonwealth Va. w.
W. Hudson for administering poison to Osle
Henderson end Virginia Hudson, writs Of
"nolle proseqai" were entered.
Last week Henry R. Boyd, of the firm OF
Boyd & Ryals, contractors and builders. in
Charlottesville, it is alleged, took from the
postofice letter addressed TO his partner,
Rvals, and from it took a check, which he
had cashed at the Peoples Bank by forging
the Endorsement. Soon Boyd disappeared,
and warrant was sworn out, and he has
been arrested and locked up, with two
charges against him, one of uttering for.
gerry and The other for rifing a private let
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